Band Member Targeted in Paris Terror Attacks Stresses Importance of Armed Self-Defense – On Tuesday, heavy metal rock group Eagles of Death Metal made a triumphant return to Paris. The American band performed before a sold-out crowd at the city’s Olympia music hall only three months after terrorist gunmen attacked an Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan theater, killing 89. By all accounts the concert was an enormous success, but even before the band took the stage, Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes made international headlines with his impassioned statements on behalf of the right to armed self-defense.
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| As previously reported, House Bill 4147 passed out of the House Judiciary Committee with the -8 amendments on February 11. The full House of Representatives was scheduled to consider HB 4147 yesterday, but the vote has been postponed until Monday, February 22. It is crucial that you contact your state Representative TODAY and continue to urge them to OPPOSE this deeply flawed bill. |
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| Yesterday, February 18, House Bill 2637 unanimously passed out of the House Wildlife Committee. HB 2637, introduced by state Representative Kevin Wallace (R-32), would make it legal for Oklahomans to hunt with a suppressor on both public and private land. HB 2637 is now awaiting a vote by the full House of Representatives. Please contact your state Representative TODAY and politely urge them to support House Bill 2637. |
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| Longtime U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a stalwart defender of the U.S. Constitution and author of the critically important majority opinion in the District of Columbia v. Heller case, passed away on Feb. 13 at the age of 79. When Justice Elena Kagan was dean of Harvard Law School, she explained Justice Scalia’s monumental influence: “His views on textualism and originalism, his views on the role of judges in our society, on the practice of judging, have really transformed the terms of legal debate in this country.” In short, “He is the justice who has had the most important impact over the years on how we think and talk about law.” |
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| As previously reported, on February 3, the House Committee on Federal and State Affairs passed House Concurrent Resolution 5008. HCR 5008 has been scheduled for a vote by the full Kansas House of Representatives on Monday, February 22. Please contact your state Representative TODAY and politely urge them to SUPPORT the Right to Hunt and Fish Constitutional Amendment. |
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| This week, the Mississippi House passed NRA-endorsed House Bill 786, introduced by State Representative Andy Gipson (R-Braxton), on an 86-32 vote. |
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| A new campaign opposing Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed ballot initiative to toughen California’s gun laws accuses the Democrat of “shamelessly exploiting” the San Bernardino terrorist attacks to win support for the measure and advance his own campaign for governor. |
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| On Wednesday, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation released data showing a large increase in the number of gun-carry license applications from November to February. |
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| Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, the sponsor of a bill to allow loaded pistols in cars without a concealed carry permit, quickly set the tone of a public hearing on the legislation Wednesday.“If you are for this bill, you are for the Second Amendment,” Allen told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “If you are against it, you are for gun control.” |
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| Maine election officials have cleared a firearm background check proposal for the November ballot. |
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| If Barack Obama and those like him fail in their goal of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” it will be in large part because of United States Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia. Sadly, Justice Scalia passed away over the weekend. Since his nomination to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Justice Scalia championed the view that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted according to the intent of those who wrote it, not according to shifting social conventions or judicial preferences. The Constitution, Justice Scalia once said, “means today not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.” As William Murchison of the Dallas Morning News wrote on Tuesday, Scalia’s understanding of the constitution “came from his respect for the wisdom of the document, which was tailored to preserve freedom.” |
